[Subscribe to Daily Digest] |
 | [Main Other Cars Bulletin Board | BBFAQ |
Prev by Date | Next by Date | Post Followup ]
Member Login / Signup - Members see fewer ads. - Latest Member Gallery Photos
Re: quite a while Posted by Snowmobile [Email]  (#686)  [Profile/Gallery]
(more from Snowmobile) on Tue, 13 May 2014 08:13:50
In Reply to: quite a while, AeroEd, Mon, 12 May 2014 09:21:46 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
I usually find exterior gets ratty faster than interior here in the snow-belt (salt-belt). The newer cars have gone for more galvinization vs eg the c900... but paint doesn't adhere as well to galvinized metal... so many brands including Audi Volvo and Saab sometimes have paint flake off but no rust underneath. Saabs seem to do a little better than Volvo and Audi. Other brands have less galvinization, and weak paint, and can rust quickly (mazda, hyundai, etc old ford focus was bad)... on the c900's there was less galvinization, but the metal was thick, so it could be repaired more easily if it was caught in time... additionally, the paint job was amazingly good - the primer was super tenacious (epoxy based iirc) so it was hard for rust to spread under it. I was surprised how quickly the rear fender "square" went on the 9-5 compared to fenders on the c900's.
wrt getting new seats... well, yeah, you can go to a custom leather shop and some have had really good results. Again, I'm not sure about the 9-5 with the airbags in the seats. However, for the most part, if you look in a junk yard, the back seats are often pristine, the passenger seat also is usually pretty good, and the drivers seats look more used. So as long as the skins for passenger seat and drivers seat are compatible, my strategy would be to source a good passenger seat skin from a yard to swap on the drivers seat when it looks rough. Cost should be manageable... again I've never done this with an airbag - they are probably asymmetric, and you'd probably just need to order a new skin, at least if you needed to do the seat back... often it is just the lower part that gets worn the most.
My 2004 9-5 has not reached a point where these things are really a consideration. It would be nice if the plastic part around the memory seat controls was less easy to break!
, Mon, 12 May 2014 06:55:36, Tue, 13 May 2014 08:13:50 <-- Viewing This Message
, Sun, 11 May 2014 15:55:02
, Sun, 11 May 2014 06:41:17, Sun, 11 May 2014 12:15:32, Sat, 17 May 2014 17:57:26, Sat, 10 May 2014 08:53:32
No Site Registration is Required to Post - Site Membership is optional (Member Features List), but helps to keep the site online
for all Saabers. If the site helps you, please consider helping the site by becoming a member.
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
